Neufangled Robotics is an open source hardware startup founded in North Carolina in 2025 by Nathaniel Nifong.
I previously worked at Google (Fiber, Youtube, Skia), and Garmin Marine. I have several kids and a fairly messy house, and I think that if I can make a product that can clean up my own home that you would like it too.
Our mission is to give people an organized home.
We prioritize robots that are narrowly effective at something that helps today rather than a general purpose robot that may be in devopment for years.
We put function over form. Our process is to identify a task that people want help with, design a machine to solve it that keeps cost low, and then make it camoflage itself in the home as well as possible.
We dogfood our products — meaning we test them in our own homes with kids — to ensure that we're creating an end-to-end solution that is truly adapted to real life problems. Whether that means inconsistent lighting, ceiling fans or apple sauce, we are ready for it.
In my time as an engineer, one phrase comes back again and again - Untested code is broken